Ian Dury & the Blockheads' LAUGHTER is a classic. The British reissue adds three bonus songs to the original album and comes with a bonus disc of 16 songs. In addition to classic songs like "I Want to Be Straight" and "Uncoolohol," this double CD reissue of one of the later works from one of U.K. punk rock's most eccentric and innovative performers contains many previously unreleased tracks. Part vintage music hall comedy and part red-hot funksters, Dury and his crack band the Blockheads were one of the punk genre's most beloved institutions in the 1970s and '80s, their clever wordplay and danceable, commercial sound heavily influencing later acts like Madness.
Disc 1: Superman's Big Sister (Disc 01) Pardon Delusions Of Grandeur Yes And No (Paula) Dance Of The Crackpots Over The Points (Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup) You're Sitting On The Chicken Uncoolohol Hey, Hey Take Me Away Manic Depression (Jimi) Oh Mr Peanut Fucking Ada I Want To Be Straight That's Not All You'll See Glimpses Duff 'Em Up And Do 'Em Over (Boogie Woogie) (Disc 02 Bonus) You Are Here Come In No. 9 Chicken (Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup) (Demo Instrumental) CC'S Rock (Demo Instrumental) I Know Your Name (Demo Instrumental) Public Party (Dance Of The Crackpots) (Demo Instrumental) Black And White (Yes And Now (Paula)) (Demo Instrumental) Manic Depression (Demo Instrumental) More Turns For Everyone (Demo Instrumental) Blue Light (That's Not All) (Demo Instrumental) Back To Y-Front (Demo Instrumental) Fatback (Demo Instrumental) On The Sopt (Do The Block) (Demo Instrumental) Duff 'Em Up And Do 'Em Over (Boogie Woogie) (Oh Mr. Peanut) (Demo Instrumental) Peter Gunn (Demo Instrumental)